Albany Park
Albany Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States.

Albany Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Located on the Northwest Side of Chicago with the North Branch of the Chicago River forming its east and north boundaries, it includes the ethnically diverse Albany Park neighborhood, with one of the highest percentages of foreign-born residents of any Chicago neighborhood.
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Worth seeing in and around Albany Park
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Wrigley Field
Wrigley Field is a ballpark on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs, one of the city's two MLB franchises.
5.9 km · baseball stadium in Chicago, Illinois, USA; home venue of the Chicago Cubs · Wikipedia - 02Northeastern Illinois University
Northeastern Illinois University is a public university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1867 by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, it was established as the first teacher training school in Cook County.
1.2 km · state university in Chicago · Wikipedia - 03Basilica of St. Hyacinth
The Basilica of Saint Hyacinth is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, located at 3636 West Wolfram Street in the Avondale neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It is a prime example of the Polish Cathedral style of churches in both its opulence and grand scale.
4.1 km · church in Chicago, USA · Wikipedia - 04Graceland Cemetery
Graceland Cemetery is a large historic garden cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Established in 1860, its main entrance is at the intersection of Clark Street and Irving Park Road.
5.1 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia - 05Queen of All Saints Basilica
Queen of All Saints Basilica is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago located at 6280 North Sauganash Avenue in Chicago's upper middle-class Sauganash neighborhood. Along with St.
3.5 km · church in Chicago, USA · Wikipedia - 06Lincoln Square
Lincoln Square is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the North Side of Chicago. It encompasses the smaller neighborhoods of Ravenswood, Ravenswood Gardens, Bowmanville, Budlong Woods, as well as Lincoln Square itself.
2.5 km · Lincoln Square, Chicago · Wikipedia - 07Leather Archives and Museum
The Leather Archives & Museum is a community archives, library, and museum located in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Founded by Chuck Renslow and Tony DeBlase in 1991, its mission is making “leather, kink, BDSM, and fetish accessible through research, preservation, education and community engagement." Renslow and DeBlase founded the museum to combat the loss and suppression of leather and fetish community history during the AIDS crisis.
5.3 km · archives and museum of the Leather subculture · Wikipedia - 08Rosehill Cemetery
Rosehill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. At 350 acres, it is the largest cemetery in the city of Chicago and its first private cemetery.
4.1 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia - 09St. Wenceslaus Church, Chicago
St. Wenceslaus is a church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago located at 3400 North Monticello Avenue in the Avondale neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, USA. One of the many Polish churches visible from the Kennedy Expressway, it is along with St.
3 km · Catholic church in Chicago · Wikipedia - 10Bohemian National Cemetery
Bohemian National Cemetery is a cemetery at 5255 North Pulaski Road in North Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
1.1 km · cemetery in Chicago · Wikipedia
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Getting to Albany Park
- Airports
- Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 15 km · Chicago Midway (MDW), 21 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 110 km
- Stations
- Francisco, 1.5 km · Southport, 5.5 km · Argyle, 5.1 km · Granville station, 5.7 km · Berwyn station, 5.1 km
- Milwaukee → Albany Park120 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · $10–14
- Grand Rapids → Albany Park202 km · quickest by road, 4h 31m · $24–33
- Indianapolis → Albany Park278 km · quickest by road, 4h 44m · $24–34
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Albany Park
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Albany Park. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inChicago Executive Airport: A second designated reliever airport, it is an increasingly popular airport for chartered flights based in Wheeling and Prospect Heights.
- Get inWaukegan Regional Airport: A third designated reliever airport, the Waukegan Regional Airport receives chartered flights.
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Next door to Albany Park
Albany Park is 15 km from Chicago, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Uptowncommunity area of Chicago5 km
- Portage Parkneighborhood in Chicago4 km
- West Ridgecommunity area in Chicago, Illinois4.2 km
- Avondalecommunity area in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America3.4 km
- Logan Squarecommunity area in Chicago, Illinois, United States4.8 km
- Jefferson Parkcommunity area in Chicago, Illinois4.3 km